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Autism, queerness, and unmasked gaming - a personal reflection
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Despite being assigned-male-at-birth, the forms my autism take deviate from the"Extreme Male Brain" conceptualisation of the neurotype that remains (regrettably) popular in scientific circles, aligning more closely with those increasingly being identified among people who are assigned female at birth. As you might expect given that my brain has essentially noped out of normative masculinity, supposedly "natural" social norms like binary gender and reproductive heterosexuality make very little intrinsic sense to me, and, as with many other aspects of my neurotype, I no longer possess the energy or inclination to conceal this fact. The faintly mortified or glazed-over expression of friends and acquaintances that would greet my latest monologue about SHODAN, GLaDOS, or whichever digital diva I was stanning at a given moment was one of the reasons I basically stopped playing games through most of my twenties.
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